Libyan border guards arrest 18 Egyptian fishermen

Libyan border guards arrested 18 Egyptian fishermen on Friday night for entering Libyan waters, Egypt’s state agency MENA reported.

All 18 fishermen are from the village of Borg Meghizel in the Nile Delta governorate of Kafr El-Sheikh, according to the head of the provincial fishermen’s syndicate, Ahmed Nassar.

In a similar incident, Egypt’s foreign ministry on Thursday announced the release of 13 fishermen who had been detained at Al-Hudaydah port in Yemen.

Officials from the port, which is currently under the control of the Houthi rebels, had detained the sailors when their boat accidentally hit the landing stage of the port, according to the Egyptian ministry statement.

Similar temporary detentions of Egyptian fishermen took place in Sudan and Tunisia last year.

source:Ahram Online